And happy groundhog day its 4 30. Im kara sewell rob 2 shot and im rob williams. Lets get our first look at the forecast with meteorologist Frank Marzullo. Another mild day on tap with temperatures climbing to 62 degrees. We stay dry this morning and early afternoon before rain and thunderstorms out ahead of a cold front start to move in towards the evening commute. The tri state is under a slight risk for severe storms this evening with our best chance of Severe Weather after 7pm. I will keep Storm Chances in forecast up until about 2am with our biggest issues being damaging wind and heavy rain. While i can not rule out Tornado Development that risk is very low for us in the tri state. Rain will taper wednesday morning with temps in the upper 40s to start wednesday falling into the 30s by afternoon. Then much cooler and seasonal with highs in the upper 30s to end the week. Breaking now breaking now. The democratic iowa cacus is too with 99percent of the votes counted its still a dead
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Hours or so. Before it starts to progress. A flood watch remains. We will keep you posted and track the storm both here and on line. Reporter well also keeping track of a situation in berkeley. Working on a flooding situation best wabbled three vehicles. The real world and the crossing , occupants of that deal were able to get al safely. Certainly the situation depict the seriousness of this storm. And how quickly can accumulate in one area. Please walk us through your afternoon out here and what you sought initially and the progress made recently. Reporter working furiously to get this under control. The showers are coming down and it keeps coming down harder trick is nesting to let up. Crews are working hard to get the flooding out of this area. I do not know what the situation is the bay and it appeared completely submerged. It seems to be a tough battle with all the water coming down. And this area. You could maybe make out of my camera is now helping right now. Until they get this
Gary, who is, well, he is prepared for the rain. Good morning, jesse reporter bill, good morning to you. Here in olney, where the rain, as you said, tapering off, but theres still a lot of moisture on the area roadways, a lot of pooling, particularly on the expressways, tollways, et cetera. So, if youre out driving around, want to bear that in mind. Try and stay towards the middle and watch out for spray coming off of cars next to you and coming in the opposite direction when they hit maybe a puddle or something. It will knock a lot of water up into the air and on to your car. Now for a comprehensive look at the roadways around the area, jillian mele is standing by in the traffic center. Good morning, jillian. Good morning to you, jesse, to you at home as well. Weve been following a vehicle fire on the ramp from 95 northbound to the blue route northbound for about 30 minutes. Its right down here and it looks like crews may have finally gotten a handle on this fire, but ive said that be
Good morning, bill, yeah, its been raping for some time out here. Were at logan circle and ill step out of the way so you can see what is going on out here. Not too many cars or people out and about in center city at this hour, but we do see that rain falling. Its a little bit lighter right now, and of course, as you mentioned, those temperatures are a little bit higher this morning, so that water as it hits the ground is not freezing, at least right now. So, things are looking pretty good out here in terms of that, but it is still wet. The roads are a little slick as we were coming in, so just be careful if you are heading out on the roads. We do see that one vehicle out there just taking it slow, taking it easy, and the folks who are out here, they have the umbrellas, theyve got the hooded jackets, just making sure that they are prepared for the wet weather this morning. And because there are only a few cars out here, hopefully, the traffic situation on the major roads is not too bad